Pulling a sickie?

I had it 2 years ago, was a shock to my GP for sure.

Yeah, that's true. I hardly ever get a cold or flu anymore compared to when I used to get the tube everyday.

Likewise. But then the other half uses public transport so I get all the cold/flu from her.
I've also accumulated bike related sick leave on top of that - five weeks after being hit by a car, one week after falling off stationary and cracking a rib. Yay.
Work at a hospital though and they've been amazing about any sickness I've had.

Last sickies I had where about seven years ago when I first met the missus. Good times !

I've only ever been off sick once.

It was 16 weeks for a separated shoulder. My job requires that I'm functioning physically so it had to be working fully by the time I went back. Other than that, not a single day off.

When I was younger I was always throwing sickies but not always using all my annual leave up. At some point I just stopped and I dont really miss it. I dont know why I dont, I guess I have never thought about it in detail.

Appending to previous sentiments about people in employment not taking advantage of sick days. I spend most of my days in "Project room's" where the space gets cramped and people inevitably work late into the night due to resourcing/sensitivity issues. People always get sick but then their martyr complex shines through and they don't go home and/or medicate, so then everyone gets a bit sick. I've seen projects completely grind to a halt because of this whilst full teams go home.

indeed - now i'm a contractor i've not had a day off sick in over 5 years. luckily i can WFH if i have a bad cold or a minor injury

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I get 6 months full pay sick followed by 6 months half pay.
Most I've used in a year is a couple of weeks (2-3 days with heavy colds and a week and a half with migraines)
I don't throw sickies as it's fraud and a stackable offence, i like being employed.

'best' sick experience was my migraine episodes used to coincide with the TdF so i would take many Tramadols/ Co-codamol (30/500s) and be off my gourd watching bikes and wish i had a drill to open my head.

I feel like a bit of a rough one reading through this thread... Im paid hourly, in a semi skilled profession and though my wage isnt bad, it aint great either. By northern standards, its comfy. But ever since I started work at 16, all the way up to now, iv always pulled sickies for legitimate and non legitimate reasons regularly.

As much as I love money, I cant help but think that im here for a good time and not for a long time, so I take a couple of days out instead of using my holidays and off I go, on me bike or off into the hills and I just jog on.

Best one to date was back when I was 17 and still working in maccies, pulled a sickie for a friday shift to go up to Huddersfield for a party with the promise of the 3 things most 17 year old lads would froth at the mouth for, beer, birds and eccys. Ended up staying up there on a three day bender, a magical journey you might say. BO wasnt the only thing that hit me after those three days though. Got back home and got slapped with a disciplinary hearing for not turning up to two more shifts... It was worth it, though I play it a tad safer nowa days, and a skip the eccys(do people still call them eccys now? Am I really starting to feel nostalgic about my younger days? pls no, im really not that old yet am I?)

Once woke up late for a shitty call centre job, ran down stairs to use the phone to call in sick (massive hangover) and hurt my ankle slightly, figured it was as good an excuse as any so said I'd twisted it the evening before. Took a few days off but had to remember to walk with a gradually improving limp for the next few weeks.

Contractors are never too sick to work.
'Nice' contractors will work from home when they're crook though.
Fucking permie scum coming in sick get harassed by the office arsehole (me, obviously) until they leave (for home or hospital, I don't care).

Missed a client presentation when I ended up in hospital after a weekend long binge drinkin' bender. That was fun times...

Best sickie was called in whilst on top of a mountain strapping on my snowboard. Was meant to be back at work but an overnight dump changed that...

Worst real sickie was 14 weeks off during summer with glandular fever. I did learn the rules to test cricket tho. (times before Netflix)

Lie on your bed when you call in, lie face up and hng your head off the side of your bed so your head's upside down. Makes you sound adenoidal. Works well if you're claiming 'flu, not so much with a broken leg.

I get migraines semi-regularly. I'm fairly certain they are related to my eyesight as they increase infrequency over time until I update my prescription, then the build up starts again.

I will take a sick day if I have one as I can't look at a screen (fairly critical in my job), but as they are a lot lighter than other people's migraines, they usually subside after 5 or 6 hours so I end up working remotely in the afternoon.

I don't doubt the severity of migraines but I do doubt my colleagues when they fuck off home with them aaaaalllllll the time.

Wisdom teeth is a good one.

I take my sickies twice a year. Two days each. Always planned so I don't drop the team in the shit. Wife is usually roped in too.

In early uni days in Manchester I had a retail job in Stockport, 4 hrs each day over the weekend. My two best mates went to uni in Leeds so I'd often go and visit them on a whim and inevitably go fucking mental. Once or twice this resulted in a sickie being pulled.
One weekend it went a bit far and I got woken by my manager on the phone: "We're going to have to have a discussion about your employment".
Wrote a dead professional letter bitching about working both weekend days and doing a hard degree and managed to wangle my way into a single 8 hour weekend shift, result.

Mine are only migraines in that the symptoms are there (loss of vision, headache & nausea), but they are by no means severe. If mrs_com gets one she's out for two days, chucking up everywhere.

There are people who will call a bad headache a migraine. Same people that call a cold the flu, or a "virus".